Airfare Is Ultra-Cheap Right Now, So Stop Procrastinating And GO

Good news: Airfare is darn cheap right now, and it’ll get cheaper in the near future. Therefore, now is an excellent time to book that trip you've been meaning to take for, ya know, EVER.

Round-trip ticket prices were 18 percent lower last month than at the same time last year, according to a new report from flight researchers at Hopper. Prices are predicted to drop even lower during the month of October and continue to tumble all the way through January 2016. 

All this is in line with industry predictions that said airfare would drop to record lows during fall. Right now, the average round-trip plane ticket will cost you $212, if you book smart and avoid last-minute travel. Last year, the same trip would’ve cost you $259, by Hopper’s estimates.

After hitting their low point in January, ticket prices will rise back up – but only by a few bucks, on average – in February and March. So find a cheap flight now, and get your warm-weather vacation on: 

Keep in mind that these low-price predictions are for flights booked during the months of October - January, not for flights taken during those months. You should buy tickets about 54 days ahead of time if you’re traveling domestically, and anywhere from 80 to 151 days ahead of time for international flights, experts say. 

Oh, and if you were wondering, Hopper's predicted price drop does indeed apply to Thanksgiving and Christmas flights: While holiday flights are typically more expensive than the average round-trip, they're still following the current trend of cheaper airfare overall. Current predictions have round-trip Thanksgiving flights at $387 (about 7 percent cheaper than last year) and Christmas flights at $375 (about 3 percent lower than last year).

Travel on, travelers.

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Flight Attendant Makes Everyone's Day With Anonymous Notes

Taylor Tippett is a Washington, D.C.-based flight attendant and the force behind the project Words From the Window Seat.  

It started about a year ago with a single note, reading "Be Kind To Yourself," that Tippett stuck to a passenger's window. The message came to her when she was sitting in the back of an empty plane preparing for an early flight, thinking deeply about her life and the sunrise outside the plane's windows. Up until that point, she said, she had been hard on herself as she mourned a broken engagement. It was time to move past that, she realized. 

"I was being really not nice to myself and I've learned over time how important it is to love yourself," Tippett said. "I was sitting just kind of reflecting and giving myself a pep talk. I was doodling and I found this little notebook that one of my instructors gave me at flight attendant training, and I had a Sharpie right there, so I just wrote down, 'Be kind to yourself.'" 

On the spur of the moment, Tippett grabbed a piece of tape and pasted her note up on the window. It was only after posting a photo of her breakthrough to Instagram, where it accrued thousands of likes and comments, that she thought about making a project out of her personal pep talks. And so Words From the Window Seat was born.

"I wanted to let others know they weren't alone," she said.

Tippett followed up her first note with more quotes that inspired her, taping them again to the airplane's windows. It became such a hit that Words From the Window Seat spawned a hashtag, and Tippett amassed 122,000 followers on her Instagram.

Tippett tries to post a picture at least once per trip, using inspiring thoughts she's had while traveling or talking to people. And with each new photo, the comments and reposts come by the thousands.  

"I literally read everybody's words," Tippett said. "I’ve gotten so much love and I’m so humbled through all of this."

Her audience comes from all walks of life, from young people to retirees to everyone in between. Tippett says some of the most inspiring and heartfelt comments have come from young women who connected with her story of love and heartbreak. The project has created a community and allowed Tippett to do what she loves most: connect to people.

"If I'm not encouraging and inspiring others, what am I doing with my life? What am I doing with my time here?" Tippett said to Seeker Stories. "For my voice to matter and for other people to connect or feel loved or just to feel understood and heard, that is all that matters to me."

Check out more of her inspiring words and photos in the slideshow below.

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What Happens When American Kids Try Dinners From All Over The World

After filming American children as they sampled breakfasts and then lunches from around the world, the folks at Cut have put together a new video that shows the kids tasting ... you guessed it, dinners from different countries across the globe. 

The eight kids sample dinner dishes from Colombia, Russia, Hawaii, Spain, Israel and China. Their reactions range from utterly disgusted to pleasantly surprised. 

While all four and a half minutes of the video are highly entertaining, the real highlight might be the part when the kid in the red shirt tries to pronounce "baba ghanoush."

 
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The Hottest Restaurant In New York City Is In A Dorm Room

Where's the hottest, hardest restaurant to get into this season in New York City? 

If you're like Al Roker in the video below and guessed a dorm room, you win.

It's called Pith, and Columbia University senior Jonah Reider prepares and serves the five-to-eight course prix fixe menu -- including seared lamb chops and snow peas with pancetta -- in his dorm room kitchen.

"I didn't expect it to be so popular," Reider told the New York Post.

NBC's Today Show says he's booked until Christmas, but you can take a look here:

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Disney Cruise Line Opened Its 2017 Bookings, And They're Magical

If you thought Disneyland was your happy place, wait till you see it at sea.

Disney Cruise Line opened bookings for its early 2017 trips Thursday... and while we've always wanted to take a Disney Cruise, this tantalizing lineup is enough to make us book, like, right now.

Disney's four ships will start the 2017 year making trips from ports in Miami, Port Canaveral, Puerto Rico and Galveston, Texas. Of course, they'll head to the Bahamas -- where Disney has its private island, Castaway Cay -- and other adventurous stops like Jamaica, St. Lucia and Cozumel, Mexico. Fares for three-night cruises will start at $513 per person, USA Today reports, which is similar in cost to some of the best cruise deals we saw this summer. 

Perusing the 2017 Disney Cruise Lineup, we found a few highlights: 

• 3-night cruise from Miami to the Bahamas: starting at $554 per person


• 6-night cruise from Galveston, Texas to Cozumel, the Cayman Islands, Jamaica and Puerto Rico: starting at $963 per person


• 7-night cruise from Puerto Rico to Barbados, Grenada, Martinique, Antigua and St. Kitts: starting at $1367 per person

It's recommended to book your cruise as early as possible, Disney spokesperson Charles Stovall told HuffPost. (Indeed, this can sometimes score you deals.) Experts at the Disney forum MouseSavers say you should book through a travel agent who specializes in Disney cruises to score onboard spending credits and get advice on navigating fare tradeoffs.

Oh, and once aboard, always take the slide:

Happy sailing!

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Norwegian Air Could Sell $69 Flights To Europe By 2017

Norwegian Air hopes to sell one-way tickets to Europe for $69 as early as 2017 by flying from U.S. airports that have low fees, Chief Executive Officer Bjørn Kjos said in an interview Tuesday.

Europe's third-largest budget airline is considering flights to Edinburgh and Bergen, Norway from U.S. airports that have little to no international service today, such as New York's Westchester County Airport and Connecticut's Bradley International Airport, just north of Hartford, Kjos said.

Average prices on such routes are likely to be closer to $300 round trip, Kjos said, compared with many of Norwegian's fares that run more than $500 today because of higher fees levied by busier airports.

The potential plans are part of Norwegian's broader move to cut prices and take share from traditional flag carriers that dominate trans-Atlantic flying.

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